Showing posts with label model railways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label model railways. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2026

TINGS haul

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  TINGS might have been a work trip, and I did buy a bit for future magazine projects, but it's a toy train show, so I can't resist ...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

TINGS 2026

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The International N Gauge Show is always a bit of a work trip. I'm on the lookout for layouts that will photograph well for BRM, and thi...
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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Phil's lecture

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  Just over a week ago, I gave a talk to the Lutterworth Railway Society. Entitled "The Joys of Model Railway Publishing", I used ...
Monday, September 07, 2026

Bournville haul - the joy of scruffy boxes

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  Small shows are a happy hunting ground for me. Since I'm not looking for the latest RTR, I'm free to scrub around under tables and...
Sunday, September 06, 2026

Bournville 2026

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I wasn't really looking to visit a model railway show. But then UKModelshops told me that the Bournville show was taking place the next ...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

Would you care to join me in Lutterworth this Thursday?

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  The Joys of Model Railway Publishing  Phil Parker is the editor of Garden Rail magazine and a features writer for BRM (British Railway M...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Saturday Film Club: Static Grass - The shocking difference!

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Some wise advice from my good self, all hidden behind a thumbnail chosen by one of my rotten colleagues! I will get my own back...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Remembering the Little Chef

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  I loved visiting a Little Chef restaurant.  An Olympic Breakfast was a thing of beauty, especially if you were heading back home after an ...
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Friday, July 17, 2026

My first coach

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  I've never been fussed by model coaching stock. Wagons are much more interesting, and far more interesting to build too. The paintwork...
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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Carrying model road vehicles

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  I've never been a fan of fixing road vehicles to model railways. For a start, it allows me to use the models on more than one layout. ...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Covrail haul

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  A rather more useful selection of goodies from Covrail than normal. No weird kits, although I looked hard at a Roundhouse HO scale loco th...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Coal, steam and Deltics in the August BRM

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  There's more practical Phil in August's issue of BRM than we've seen in the last few months. I start by showing how to add coa...
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Thursday, July 02, 2026

Remembering Thomas the Tank engine

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  Back in the 1980s, the L&WMRS built a Thomas the Tank engine layout. It was a simple track plan, a couple of ovals with loops in the s...
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Friday, June 19, 2026

Titch

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  I'm pretty sure that if you'd asked my Dad which was his favourite of the Melbridge Dock locomotives, he'd have plumped for ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

I like big bolts and I cannot lie

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  Melbridge Dock is held together by bolts.  Eight are used to fix packing boards on to the end of the baseboards, to turn the modelling int...
Friday, June 12, 2026

The missing seagull

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  Written in permanent marker on the back of Melbridge Dock, are the words "7 seagulls".  Pretty soon after the layout appeared at...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Not in the stock box

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Not all my loco fleet made it to the weekend. A week of testing at home persuaded me that there were a couple of models that would be more t...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Locomotive stars of the show

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  Among my worries about hauling Melbridge Dock out for a weekend, was how well the locomotive fleet would work. After all, they had been in...
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Monday, June 08, 2026

Celebration day haul, with a mystery

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  There was a small second-hand stall at the open day, and of course, it liberated a fiver from my pocket towards club funds.  The Hobby...
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Sunday, June 07, 2026

Dad's celebration day

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  What a wonderful day! My Dad didn't want a funeral, but we felt that there ought to be some sort of celebration of his life - a chance...